FORD IS REBUFFED BY A HOUSE PANEL ON OFFER OF DATA; Pike Refuses to Accept the Intelligence File Because Condition Is Attached NO COURT ACTIONS NOW Committee Seeks to Avoid Delay in Inquiry Adopts New 'Conciliatory' Step Ford Is Rebuffed by House Committee on Offer to Turn Over Intelligence Data
Date: 18 September 1975
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to the New York Times
HR Select Com Chmn Repr O G Pike refuses to accept last-min offer of classified intelligence materials from White House on ground that they are incomplete, were screened in advance and delivered on condition that they not be made public; Pike says his colleagues support his action and agree that White House is technically 'not in compliance' with com subpoenas calling for provision of such materials by Sept 17; says com will not go to ct to seek enforcement of its subpoenas at this time; com adopts new procedure that some members say they hope White House will accept as conciliatory move; procedure would give White House a day's notice before making public sensitive classified information handed' over by White House in response to subpoena; Pike characterizes proposed procedure as compromise; Pike agrees to turn over to Pres Ford the 3 documents in his personal possession that are classified 'secret'; Pike, in lr to Ford, says lrs are exch of correspondence between himself and CIA Dir William E Colby; present dispute between com and Ford was occasioned by com's decision last wk to make public a phrase from intelligence summary of activity inside several Arab states just before Oct '73 Middle East war; Sen Select Intelligence Com begins holding public hearings on reptd attempts by CIA to assassinate foreign pol leaders; illus of ex-CIA Dir Richard Helms, Sen F Church and Thomas H Karamessines, former CIA chief of covert operations (L)
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National News Council Scores A Weekly's Article on Rainiers
Date: 18 September 1975
Natl News Council agrees with complaint filed by Consul Francis Cresci (Monaco) against Natl Star for writing 2 articles stating that Prince Rainier and Princess Grace are separated (S)
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OREGON REPEALS ACT CURBING POLICE DATA
Date: 18 September 1975
Ore Legis holds 12-hr special session, called by Gov Robert W Straub; repeals 4-day-old law that unintentionally required arrest repts and ct records to be secret (S)
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Brooks Atkinson To Receive Award
Date: 17 September 1975
Paul Buiar, pres of Soc of Silurians, announces that Brooks Atkinson, former NY Times drama critic, will receive 25-yr News Achievement Award of soc (S)
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'Only Congress Itself'
Date: 18 September 1975
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
A Lewis, noting Sen Select Intelligence Com's televised hearings on secret CIA poisons, says HR Select Intelligence Com's probe may have more profound impact on larger issues raised by Amer intelligence activities in recent yrs; says reason lies in contrasting attitudes toward crucial question of exec secrecy; calls Sen com approach to getting classified documents 'traditional'; notes HR com and its chmn Repr O G Pike are insisting on their right to examine all relevant evidence on their own terms; notes ex-CIA Dir Richard M Helms's testimony before Sen com about CIA employe who violated orders by keeping poison; says larger point underlying various intelligence probes is need for accountability; says Pres Ford drew issue of power with com over 'molehill,' its release of 4 words from classified document; scores Ford's attitude that 'Govt' means only exec branch
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People in Sports; Hooton Hurls in Koufax Image
Date: 17 September 1975
Detroit Tigers' mgr Ralph Houk, charged with assault after losing his temper with Baltimore Evening Sun sports writer Phil Hersh, loses his temper briefly again with photograher in ct where charges formally are dropped; Houk apologizes to Hersh and photographer; illus (S)
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PRESIDENT READY TO DEFY HOUSE BID FOR VIETNAM DATA; He Says Intelligence Panel Must First Act to Guard Sensitive Materials DEADLINE THIS MORNING Pike Opposes Compromise Confrontation Near on Constitutional Issue
Date: 17 September 1975
By PHILIP SHABECOFF Special to The New York Times
Philip Special
Pres Ford says he will defy subpoena ordering him to turn over classified documents on Vietnam war to HR Select Intelligence Com unless com adopts procedures to safeguard sensitive materials, news conf at White House; com Chmn Repr O G Pike says he will oppose compromise on either right of Cong to declassify material classified by exec branch or right of Cong to subpoena and obtain Pres documents; says he will recommend that com comply with demand by Ford that it return classified materials already sent over by White House; White House source says Adm was upset by 'capricious and frenetic' way that Pike's com declassified material, which involved assessment by Natl Security Council of likelihood of war in Middle East in Oct '73; on covert CIA pol activities in foreign nations, Ford says he plans to recommend some adm changes on basis of information uncovered by Rockefeller CIA Comm; says he will not rule out necessary pol activities by US if it involves natl security; illus of Ford with reporters (L)
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NEW RULE SOUGHT FOR BIG-CITY RADIO; F.C.C. Chief to Seek Easing of the Fairness Doctrine
Date: 17 September 1975
FCC Chmn Richard E Wiley calls for FCC to reverse decisions made in early '60s that ruled that a Pres news conf is not a 'bona fide news event' and therefore, candidates running for Pres were to be allowed equal broadcast time whenever a Pres running for re-election gave news conf (S)
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A Judge in Buffalo Allows Then Rejects TV in Courtroom
Date: 17 September 1975
Fed Judge John T Curtin on Sept 17 allows than later rejects use of TV cameras in his courtroom to record closing arguments in school segregation case; notes judicial ban on televised Fed proceedings (S)
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Son of Watergate
Date: 18 September 1975
ed says what is at stake in fight over how HR Select Intelligence Com will handle classified information is whether Cong will at last actually begin to exercise its oversight functions with respect to US's intelligence agencies; calls this 2d-generation Watergate issue; cites origin of current controversy; says Adm's real concern seems to be to keep HR investigators from delving as deeply as they should into intelligence activities
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